A. Read this excerpt from Chris Matthews on "The Chris Matthews Show" from November 2nd, 2008 (the final Sunday before the 2008 General Election)...

-----

I have this notion of America that I’ve been working on. It’s romantic, but also drawn from our grittiest history, those waves of immigration that brought so many of us to this country. Wherever we came from, there were those who took a chance, pulled up stakes, threw off what they had and made the often risky, dangerous crossing to this new land. They made this most basic of all decisions -- "I will not live this way. It’s got to be better than this." Those were our grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents. And of course there were others, those who stayed home, who said, "I can live with this. Let’s just muddle through."